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UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

VICTOR DE BUCK, OF BRUSSELS, BELGIUM.

ClGAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 684,413, dated October15, 1901.

Application filed October 1 5, 1900. Serial No. 33,100. (No model.)

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Be it known that I, VICTOR DE BUCK, a subject of the King of theBelgians, and a resident of Brussels, Belgium, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Cigars, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to a cigar of novel shape and construction, themanner of manu facturing which is hereinafter explained.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 shows in section a cigar-bunchhaving a fillet or string of long-filler tobacco laid lengthwise thereinand extending beyond the two ends of the bunch. Figs. 2 to 7 show thenew cigar, the body of which may be of square, triangular, octagonal,hexagonal, or rectangular section. Figs. 8 to 13 are end views of thedifferent-shaped cigars shown in Figs. 2 to 7, taken consecutively.Figs. 14 and 15 are plan views of two molds, showing in section a bunchprovided with its central fillet of tobacco. Figs. 16 and 17 representreductions of the two molds shown in Figs. 14 and 15, respectively.Figs. 18 and 19 show modifications of the mold.

A fillet or string a a of tobacco distinct from that which constitutesthe body of the cigar is so arranged that it will extend the wholelength of the latter. This fillet rests in a bunch I) b, shortened atboth ends or only at the lower end. This shortened hunch is thenintroduced into a mold 0, open at both ends, or a mold d, open only atthe lower end, such as shown in Figs. 14, 15, 18, and 19, or any.

modification thereof may be adopted.

According to the usual method of manufacturing cigars the mold receivesand shapes the whole bunch; but according to the present invention themold receives and shapes only the shortened bunch-that is to say, thebody of the cigar-leaving the head as well as the pointed end outside itquite untouched. This permits the desired shape to be given to the cigarand also prevents any crushing of the head and pointed end. The latteris an evil Moreover, in

order to provide a longer pointed end and a better-looking cigar,together with a perfect draft, this end is not specially wrapped, but isinclosed only in the wrapper which covers the bunch proper of the cigar.

The method employed, as above described, gives a bold well-defined shapeto the cigar and a very long tapering end without lessening the draft,the body of the cigar bulging out abruptly and being well filled incontrast to the end parts.

In order to give the cigar a distinctive appearance and to insureregular combustion, it is pressed into triangular, square, hexagonal,oroctagonal prismatic shape,as represented in Figs. 2 to 13. Inconsequence of the fact that a shortened bunch surrounds aninternallyarranged longer fillet or string a and that the whole iscovered by a wrapper wound around the said bunch, the pressure abovedescribed gives to the body of the cigar at the tapering ends thereof asemicircular line of demarcation, as atf in Fig. 7, or a pointed arch,as at g in Figs. 2 to 6, forming thus a number of flat faces, as itwere, which, with the edges of the three, four, six, or eight sides,give to the cigar a prismatic form. The form of a pentagonal prism maybe adopted.

As maybe seen from the drawings, the plane of pressure h it willdetermine the extremity of the semicircular or the pointed arch-line ofdemarcation, the cigarshown in Figs. 2 to 6 corresponding to the mold 15and the sample represented by Fig. 7 will correspond to mold 14.

One of the numerous advantages of the cigar described is that it is, soto speak, built up regularly. Owing to the pressure being in a prismaticform, the operator must proceed systematically. The shape of the articleproduced would betray any negligence in the work. Moreover, the factthat the wrapper covers a shortened bunch having a thread or fillet oftobacco passing through itlonger than itself the smoker enjoys twosuccessive and distinct flavors.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patout, is-

1. Acigar having acentral longitudinal filpointed end uncompressed, theWhole being 10' 7 let of long-filler tobacco, surrounded by a covered bya wrapper. shortened compressed bunch, leaving at least In testimonywhereof I have hereunto set one end of the fillet projecting anduncornmy hand in presence of two Witnesses. 5 pressed, and a wrappercovering the whole. Y T

2. A cigar having a central longitudinal fil- ICTOR DE BUCK let oflong-filler tobacco surrounded by a Witnesses: shortened compressedbunch, leaving the pro- 0. SOHER, jecting end or head of said fillet aswell as a GREGORY PHELAN.

